🚨Thierry Henry on Portugal’s elimination from the FIFA World Cup:
🗣️ “I’m going to say something that a lot of Portuguese supporters probably don’t want to hear.
This Portugal team has massively underperformed.
Not because they lacked talent, but because too many of their biggest players never reached the level everyone expected.
Bruno Fernandes has been dreadful by his own standards throughout this World Cup. The creativity, the leadership, the decisive moments we’ve seen for years simply weren’t there. Then you look at Vitinha and João Neves—fresh from winning the Champions League with PSG. Two midfielders who dominated Europe. Yet in this tournament, they’ve been almost invisible. Missing in action when Portugal needed control, composure and personality.
And then there is Cristiano Ronaldo.
People will blame him because that’s the easy thing to do.
I won’t.
Because if you decide to start Cristiano, then you have to build situations that suit him. Instead, Portugal kept circulating possession without purpose. They had one of the greatest penalty-box finishers football has ever seen, yet they hardly gave him the service he lives on. That’s not on Ronaldo. That’s on the team around him.
Spain deserve enormous credit.
They played with a clear identity from the first minute until the last. Every player knew his role. Every movement had purpose. Portugal, on the other hand, looked like eleven talented footballers trying to solve the game individually rather than collectively.
That’s why Spain are still in this World Cup.
And that’s why Portugal are going home.
Not because they had worse players…
But because they never played like a better team.”
🚨🚨🎙️ Roy Keane: "You’ll NEVER hear Argentina players disrespect Messi... Neves needs to learn respect"
🎙️ Reporter:
“Roy, what did you make of Joao Neves saying Ronaldo is ‘just another player’ for Portugal?”
🗣️ Roy Keane:
“Listen, I’ve had enough of this. The kid’s 19. He’s played what, 15 games for his country? And he’s talking like Ronaldo’s some squad player.
‘He’s not different from the others’? Are you kidding me? This is Cristiano Ronaldo. Five Ballon d’Ors. Over 200 caps. Goals at every World Cup.
And you’ll NEVER see any Argentina players say that about Messi. NEVER. Those boys respect him so much. They’ll run through walls. They do everything possible to see him win with their last drop of blood.
That’s what a real team does for a legend.
He carried Portugal before Neves was even born. Before he could kick a ball.
You show respect to legends. You don’t sit there at a World Cup press conference and say he’s ‘just here to help like everyone else’.
He IS different. The standards, the mentality, the winning — that’s Ronaldo.
If Neves wants to be great, he should be watching Ronaldo, not dismissing him. Otherwise he’ll be another kid who talked too much and won nothing.”
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🚨 Zinedine Zidane on Portugal’s performance:
🗣️ “I don’t have much to say about Portugal, but one thing is very clear: there are bigger problems than Cristiano Ronaldo playing 90 minutes or his age. What I saw was a team full of talented players who are not willing to sacrifice enough for the country. Too many of them play like club players, not national team players.
Look at the great teams in this tournament. They fight for each other, they suffer together, and they do everything to help their leader. I didn’t see that hunger from Portugal.
People say they have the best midfield in the tournament because of what those players do at their clubs, but football is about what you do together. Against Congo, they kept passing the ball between themselves without creating real danger.
If Ronaldo received ten clear chances and missed them, then blame him. But when neither he nor the other strikers get service, the problem is elsewhere.”
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